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Featured in Development

Understandability is the concept that a system should be presented so that an engineer can easily comprehend it. The more understandable a system is, the easier it will be for engineers to change it in a predictable and safe manner. A system is understandable if it meets the following criteria: complete, concise, clear, and organized.

Featured in Architecture & Design

Sonali Sharma and Shriya Arora describe how Netflix solved a complex join of two high-volume event streams using Flink. They also talk about managing out of order events and processing late arriving data, exploring keyed state for maintaining large state, fault tolerance of a stateful application, strategies for failure recovery, data validation batch vs streaming, and more.

Featured in Culture & Methods

Tim Cochran presents research gathered from ThoughtWorks' varied clients and projects, and shows some of the metrics their teams have identified as guides to creating the platform and the culture for high performing teams.

Deborah Hartmann Preuss on Creating Joyful Workplaces

In this podcast, recorded at the Agile India 2019 conference, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Deb Preuss about life coaching, creating joyful workplaces, diversity and inclusion.

Key Takeaways

Life coaching is a skill that helps others find their best selves

Culture has shifted and people know that it is possible to find pleasure at work, so autocratic leadership styles will no longer be accepted in the workplace

The freedom to be your authentic self reduces your stress and frees your uniqueness to bring a richness into the workplace

Diversity and inclusion are two different things and we need both in our workplaces

By paying attention to small things done consistently with intention we can build a culture that genuinely is inclusive

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